Word: flip-flopped
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Fears of war and recession dampen holiday spirits. -- The states struggle to balance their budgets. -- A controversial flip-flop over minority scholarships greets a new Education Secretary...
Conservatives are huffing and puffing and threatening to blow the House down over Bush's flip-flop on "no new taxes". A similar outcry over his environmental duplicity is well-overdue...
...COMPARISON to Silber, Frank Bellotti is just another politician. Throughout his relatively undistinguished career as lieutenant governor and, later, attorney general, Bellotti has chosen his positions with one hand measuring the winds of public opinion and the other covering his behind. In one of the most monumental flip-flops of Massachusetts politics, Bellotti--who brought a landmark parental consent case to the Supreme Court that would have severely restricted access to abortions--now says he supports the right to choose. And in a double flip-flop, Bellotti started his political career in 1964 as a supporter of the death penalty...
Martinez will need his war chest to help him overcome an unfavorable performance rating among voters that peaked at 62% in June. Hobbling the Governor are two well-publicized gaffes, a flip-flop on a controversial tax in 1986 and a resounding defeat in the legislature when he tried to push through new restrictions on abortion rights last fall. But Republicans, including George Bush, have stuck by Martinez, largely because Florida is too important to the G.O.P.'s goal of capturing the South to risk abandoning an incumbent Governor. Last year the G.O.P. gained a majority in Florida's congressional...
...said Bush, are a necessary part of any compromise package to cut the budget deficit, and a lower deficit in turn is essential to bring down interest rates and get the economy moving at something better than its current snail's pace. "In the long run," he added, the flip-flop will not hurt his credibility "because what people are interested in are jobs, economic growth. People know this deficit is bad. People know that we are going to have to take some action." Some Republicans nonetheless grumbled that Bush was improving his prospects in the 1992 election...